Re: How to add 'relaxing' to loader for m68k

[Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>]

>> Are there any examples in gas/ld of using a special section for this?
>> I'm looking for a place to start.
>
>elfxx-mips.c does horrible things with extra sections.  Before you go
>down that path though, I suggest implementing something using special
>relocs to indicate the start of the insn as well as the relocs type.
>The idea being to get your relaxation machinery working first, then
>at a later stage write code for the assembler to map special relocs
>to normal relocs + aux data stored in a special section, and code to
>do the reverse in the linker.

Sounds like a plan.  I'll start looking into this.  Expect lots of
questions in a few weeks :-)

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